Horse-collar.



' No. 781,383. PATENTED JAN. 31, 190 5. J. & B. VELTUNG.

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UNITED STATES Patented January 31, 1905.

PATENT OFFI E.

JACOB VELTUNG AND' ERNEST VELTUNG, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

HORSE-COLLAR.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 781,383, dated January 31, 1905.

Application filed January 27, 1902. Renewed July 20, 1904:. Serial No- 217,299.

T on whom it may concern:

Be it known that we, J AooB VELTUNG and ERNEST VELTUNG, citizens of the United States, and residents of New York city, in the county ofNeW York and State of New York, have invented a certain new and useful Improvement in Horse-Collars, of which the following is a specification.

The present invention relates to horse-collars wherein there is a wearing-piece to which pads or cushions are secured, the objects of the invention being to avoid certain objectionable features which exist in a Wooden wearing-piece as heretofore constructed and at the same time to reduce the cost.

The present invention is more particularly intended for use in connection with air-cushions such as are shown in Letters Patent of the United States granted October 29, 1901, and bearing number 685,541, though itmay be used in combination with cushions or pads of other known construction or kind. The horse-collar illustrated in said patent includes a wooden wearing-piece which is carved or formed from one piece. Such a wearing-piece is liable to warp-and split and is also expensive to make.

According to the present invention liability to warping and splitting is avoided and durability and strength retainedor even increased by making the rear wale of wood veneer several plies thick and securing a fore-wale, preferably of wood, thereto in any suitable manner. The cushions are secured to the collar in appropriate ways, the collar being first waterproofed,if desired.

The preferred form of the invention is illustrated in the accompanying drawings, forming part hereof, in which Figure 1 is a perspective view of the finished wearing-piece; Fig. 2, a cross-section on the line w m of Fig. 1, and Fig. 3 a crosssection on the line y y of Fig. 1.

In the preferred manner of carrying out the present invention the fore wale a is carved New York and State of New York, this 25th or otherwise formed from wood, being provided, preferably, with a groove?) at the rear side thereof and having its inner edge curved or concaved to receive the outside of the bowlshaped rear wale c, which is made of wood veneer several plies thick, said rear wale being in one piece and having the openingd in it to go over the animals head. The two wales are secured together in any suitable manner, as :by nails, screws, &c. It is remarked that the veneer rear wale is conveniently formed A in dish shape by dies in a veneer-press and that it is more convenient tomake it without any central opening, the said opening being made afterward by sawing or cutting along the edge c after the front and rear wales are The rear edge f ofthe wearing-piece in or adjacent to the groove Air-cushions or other forms of pads are to be secured to the wearing-piece on the inside thereof. In case the air cushions described in said Letters Patent are usedthey may be secured in place as in said patent described. It is to be understood that the veneer has the grain of the wood crossing as usual, thus giving strength and preventing warping.

The wearing-piece may be varnished, waterproofed, or otherwise treated before the cushions' or pads are put on to' finish the collar.

What is claimed as new is t 1. In a horse-collar, a forewale combined with a wood-veneer concave rear wale, substantially as described.

2. In a horse-collar, a wearing-piece comprising a fore Wale provided with a groove at its rear, combined with aconcave wood-veneer rear wale secured to the inside of the fore wale, substantially as described.

3. In a horse-collar, a wearing-piece comprising a fore wale combined with a woodveneer rear wale said rear wale being concave on'the inside'and convex on the outside, substantially as described.

4:. In a horse-collar, a wearing-piece comprising a fore wale of wood combined with a concave wood-veneer rear wale securedto the inner side thereof, substantially as described.

Signed at New York city, in the county'of D. 1902. JACOB VELTUNG. ERNEST VELTUNG.

day of January, A.

Witnesses:

RITA BRADT, R. W. BARKLEY. 

